PulpFest 2025 is drawing to a close, but there is still time to get in on the action. With most of our dealers getting ready to head home, admission is free to all. However, buying opportunities will be extremely limited as the vast majority of our dealers will be packing up their displays throughout the morning.
Although there are no programming events scheduled for Sunday, our dealers’ room will be open from 9 am until 1 pm. Located in the Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, our dealers’ room will feature exhibitors selling and trading pulp magazines and related materials, digests, vintage paperbacks, contemporary genre fiction and pulp reprints, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first-edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age as well as pulp-related comic books and games. Unfortunately, most of them will be packing up to head home.
If you have not been able to attend PulpFest in 2025, start making plans now to join next year’s gathering. As always, expect a terrific dealers’ room and superb programming. And don’t forget, your PulpFest membership will include memberships in Doc Con XXII, ERBFest 2026, and FarmerCon XXI. That’s four conventions for the one price!
If that’s not enough, New Dimensions Comics, Pittsburgh’s largest retail seller of comics, games, and collectibles, is offering a 10% discount to PulpFest 2025 members from August 7 – 10. Just show your PulpFest badge to the staff when you’re checking out. With six storesin the area, New Dimension’s closest location is just 2.5 miles from the DoubleTree at 20550 Route 19 in Cranberry Township.
Please join us from July 30 – August 2 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania, for a salute to the centennial of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, the first specialized science fiction pulp, and a lot more at PulpFest 2026.
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Many thanks to all of you who attended this year’s convention. We hope that you enjoyed yourself and plan to return next year for PulpFest 2026. Please bring your friends!
Your PulpFest Organizing Committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, and Craig McDonald.
Our featured image is excerpted from Walter M. Baumhofer’s cover for the March 1935 issue of Doc Savage Magazine, illustrating W. Ryerson Johnson’s & Lester Dent’s novel, “Land of Always Night.” Johnson, who was born on October 19, 1901, teamed up with Dent twice more on the Doc Savage series, co-writing “The Fantastic Island” for the December 1935 issue of the Street & Smith pulp and “The Motion Menace” for the May 1938 number.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Alex Schomburg’s cover art for the February 1964 issue of Amazing Stories. Schomburg, who is best known for creating more than 500 covers for comic books, painted twenty covers for Amazing Stories, with all but two of them contributed between 1960 and 1965. Next year, we’ll be saluting the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories. We hope you will join us for PulpFest 2026.
